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|aKingsbury, Damien.
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|aEast Timor|h[electronic resource] :|bthe price of liberty /|cDamien Kingsbury.
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|a1st ed.
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|aNew York :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2009.
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|a246 p. :|bmap ;|c22 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-240) and index.
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|aWhat is Development? / Mark Mcgillivray -- Reassessing Development Theory: 'Modernization' and Beyond / John McKay -- Aid and Development /Janet Hunt -- Economics of Development / John McKay --Globalization and Development / Damien Kingsbury -- Poverty: Concepts, Measures, Trends and Responses / Matthew Clarke -- Crises in Africa, Asia and Latin America: Lessons and Wider Implications / John McKay -- Political Development / Damien Kingsbury -- Community Development / Damien Kingsbury -- Gender and Development / Janet Hunt -- Environment and Development / Damien Kingsbury -- Security and Development / John McKay.
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|aThis book is based on extensive research and regaulr visits to East Timor since 1995. It considers the trials that the people of East Timorhave undergone in their long struggle for independence, and issues that have arisen out of independence. This account places East Timor within the contextof other post-colonial states, noting the problems that most of them have faced in coming to grips with their new-found freedoms, and how they have managed, or mismanaged, such freedoms. It also traces the themes and issues within the independence movement, noting how these have contibuted to post-independence outcomes, in particular the political tensions that almost saw East Timor collapse as aviable statein 2006. The books concludes with an assessment of the 2007 elections which, depsite some post-election violence, saw the consolidation of democratic processes in East Timor, and which marked it as having a brighter future in this one critical respect.
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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2009.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on Oct. 6, 2009).|nAccess may berestricted to users at subscribing institutions.
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